Widely used websites Wikipedia, Boing Boing and Reddit, among many others, will go dark on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills currently in Congress.

WikipediaWikipedia will be blacked out for 24 hours to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills.

SOPA and PIPA, which are largely backed by the entertainment industry, aim to restrict access to sites that may be associated with copyright infringment. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist have already made their concerns known, saying the bills would create loopholes for government to regulate freedom of expression.

Neither the House nor the Senate has reached a vote as yet. The conflict has been described as "a war between Silicon Valley and Hollywood."

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